Punset
Neive · Cuneo (CN)
Established
1964
Marcarino family (Renzo Marcarino began commercial bottling)
Yearly production
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estate (Barbaresco, organic/biodynamic)
Location
Neive
Cuneo (CN) · Piemonte
Vineyard area
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Nebbiolo for Barbaresco around Neive, farmed organically and biodynamically
Appellations
Alba DOCAsti DOCGBarbaresco DOCGLanghe DOC
History
The Marcarino family's vineyards at Neive go back generations; commercial bottling began in 1964 under Renzo Marcarino, and the estate is named Punset — 'beautiful hill' in Piedmontese, after a nickname from the Count of Neive.
In her early twenties Marina Marcarino took over and, in the early 1980s, converted Punset to organic farming — a radical move for the time that made it the first certified organic Barbaresco in Italy; from the 1990s she added biodynamics.
Marina follows the 'agriculture of not doing' of Masanobu Fukuoka, minimising treatments and keeping the vineyards green.
Wines
Illustrative selectionBarbaresco
The estate's organic Barbaresco.
Barbaresco 'Campo Quadro' Riserva
A single-vineyard Riserva.
Langhe Nebbiolo
A Langhe Nebbiolo from the estate.
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